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PRIORITY UK MISSION GENEVA TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEGRAM NUMBER 235
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18 APRIL 1969
ADDRESSED TO FCO TEL NO 235 OF 18 APRIL REPTD FOR INFMN TO ROME, PARIS, HONG KONG AND SAVING TO BONN, BERNE, UKDEL EEC BRUSSELS, BRUSSELS, THE HAGUE, WASHINGTON, TOKYO.
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YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 310 VISIT OF MR. STANS TO EUROPE.
MR. STANS AND HIS PARTY, INCLUDING MR. CARL GILBERT, HAVE JUST CONCLUDED A TWO-DAY VISIT TO GENEVA. THEIR MAIN PURPOSE WAS TO MEET THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF GATT AND THE FEDERAL SWISS
AUTHORITIES CONCERNED WITH TRADE MATTERS. BUT SOME OF MY
COLLEAGUES AND I HAD A CHANCE OF A BRIEF EXCHANGE OF VIEWS WITH THE VISITORS OVER LUNCH. PREVIOUSLY, I HAD TOLD THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE LINE WHICH U.K. MINISTERS WOULD TAKE AS SET OUT IN YOUR TELEGRAM UNDER REFERENCE.
2. LONG GAVE ME TO-DAY THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF HIS DISCUSSIONS WITH STANS WHICH BEGAN YESTERDAY MORNING AND CONTINUED AFTER
LUNCH AND OVER DINNER.
3. STANS SEEMED INTERESTED ONLY IN TEXTILES. HE HAD NO CLEAR IDEAS
NOR ANY CO-ORDINATED LINE ON OTHER GATT QUESTIONS. THE VISIT WAS IN LONG'S PHRASE ''A COMMANDO OPERATION ON TEXTILES''. STANS WAS FIRM ABOUT THE NEED TO ACT ON TEXTILES WITHIN THE GATT FRAMEWORK AND BADLY WANTED LONG'S SUPPORT AND HELP IN EXPLORING PROCEDURES BY WHICH THE U.S. PROBLEM COULD BE HANDLED IN GATT. COULD IT BEST BE RAISED WHEN THE LONG-TERM COTTON ARRANGEMENT
CAME UP FOR REVIEW IN SEPTEMBER ''ASSUMING THE U.S. INDUSTRY COULD WAIT THAT LONG'', OR WOULD AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE PROBLEM BE MORE APPROPRIATE?
RECEIVED IN ?"GISTRY No.51 22 APR 1969
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